In Search of Chinese Democracy
Subtitle: Civil Opposition in Nationalist China, 19291949 (Cambridge Modern China Series)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 20, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9780521025812
Subjects: Political structures: democracy; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Second World War, 1939-1945; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; China; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Political Process - General; Democracy--China; Democracy--China Democracy--China; Political Science / Government / International; Political Science / Practical Politics; Political Science-Political Ideologies - Democracy; Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights
First sentence: CIVIL OPPOSITION in the Nationalist period is best understood in a dual context: the repression of one-party rule and the imperatives of national salvation.